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Family and Education
b. 1621, 2nd s. of Robert Hammond (d. 1623), of Chertsey and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Knollys I*.G.C.M. Smith, ‘Temple and Hammond families and the related families of Nowell and Knollys’, N and Q, cli. 237-9. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 20 May 1636, ‘aged 15’.Al. Ox.; Ath. Ox. iii. 500. m. 1 Feb. 1650, Mary, da. of John Hampden*, 2da.St Mary Bothaw, London par. reg.; Smith, ‘Temple and Hammond families’, 238-9; Reg. of the Par. of St Mary, Reading, ed. G.P. Crawfurd (Reading, 1891-2), i. 64; PROB11/241/614. d. 24 Oct. 1654.Ath. Ox. iii. 502.
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Military: soldier, Ireland 1641–2. July 1642 – Mar. 1643An Answer to a Scandalous Letter written by Hammond (1648), 4 (E.452.8). Capt. of ft. (parlian) regt. of Sir John Hotham*, Hull; lifeguard of 3rd earl of Essex, Mar.-Nov. 1643.BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; SP28/7, f. 121; SP28/10, f. 286 Maj. regt. of Edward Massie* by Aug. 1644.CSP Dom. 1644, p. 396. Col. of ft. by May 1645-Sept. 1647.M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 56, 66, 77, 86. Gov. Exeter Apr. 1646;CJ iv. 506a. I.o.W. 17 Sept. 1647-Nov. 1648.LJ ix. 423b, 437a, 437b; CJ v. 306a-b. Member, gen. cttee. of officers, 29 Aug. 1647.Clarke Pprs. i. 223–4.

Local: member, I.o.W. standing cttee. Nov. 1647; Berks. Mar. 1648.CJ v. 347a, 506b; LJ ix. 506a, 507a; x. 127a-b. V.-adm. Hants and I.o.W. Oct. 1647-June 1649.ADM7/673, pp. 401–2; CJ v. 324b. J.p. Hants 21 Feb. 1648–d.C231/6, pp. 108, 160; C193/13/4, f. 87.

Civic: high steward, Reading 26 June 1654–d.Reading Recs. iv. 532, 555–6.

Irish: cllr. of state, 17 Aug. 1654.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 407.

Parlimentarian
HAMMOND, Robert (1621-54), of Chertsey, Surr. and Reading, Berks.
: of Chertsey, Surr. and Berks., Reading.
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Commons 1640-1660
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HAMMOND, Robert (1621-54), of Chertsey, Surr. and Reading, Berks.

Will
5 Oct. 1654, pr. 7 Dec. 1654.PROB11/241/614.
Estates
bought Reading Abbey, Reading, Berks. and manor of Chertsey Beamond, Surr. but sold them to Sir Robert Pye II*, Charles Fleetwood*, Sir John Temple*, John Trevor*, Richard Knightley* and Richard Hampden*, 1651;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 291. owned land at Chertsey, Surr. and at Willen, Bucks.PROB11/241/614.
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